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@Nmyownworld
Ok, I saw this and thought “this is more vague than Picard on the bridge, Nimmy will love it”
And you just get it straight off… HOW? 😂
@startrekgifs
@gareth @startrekgifs That brief glimpse at the beginning of that unforgettable character. He, and the episode he was in, are very ... distinct. 🤨 😄
@Nmyownworld @gareth @startrekgifs
sometimes my phone clips off one or two seconds of a GIF. Often it's a vital bit, like here! 😂
@5ciFiGirl
Yeah, guess I have that too… all I see is the Enterprise flying through space, nothing else!
@Nmyownworld @5ciFiGirl @startrekgifs
👍
But @gareth is on the same instance, so that's not the culprit.
Good job at any rate.
@darth_hideout Thanks!
And good point about the Gareth and I being on the same instance. Maybe it's a phone compared to a computer thing? I'm on a computer. 🤔
@Nmyownworld @5ciFiGirl @startrekgifs @gareth
I have to go to desktop to save. Same both places (usu phone).
@darth_hideout @5ciFiGirl @startrekgifs @gareth
Okay, y'all are far more tech knowledgeable than I am. Here's what happened:
When I saved it as an mp4, I only got about 5 or 6 seconds of the Enterprise moving through space. Like what you've seen.
But, that doesn't explain why I can see the full gif here, and see it if I open it as an mp4 in another tab.
@Nmyownworld @5ciFiGirl @startrekgifs @gareth
Actually same for me with the original on friendsofdesoto.
I have a suspicion that perhaps the original instance at some point clipped this down. (I suspect it's the middle, not the end.)
You saw it early & have a cached version on your computer. When you save directly, it ignores that cache & goes to the server, which has now trimmed it.
But idk for sure.
https://friendsofdesoto.social/@startrekgifs/117574950169383863
@darth_hideout Bingo! Without the cache from earlier, I'm getting the 6 second snippet that only shows the Enterprise flying through space.
Mystery solved. 🏆
I was looking at my Notifications when that gif popped up, so I did open it within a few seconds of it being posted. I must have beat the gif being clipped.
@Nmyownworld @5ciFiGirl @startrekgifs @gareth
I was speculating, but it would make sense. Gareth prob saw it just a second or so after, while you were typing or something, before your reply showed up.
I guess the early bird gets the worm, so it's not a giant bug.
DF has said he actually uploads video, which then shows up in the browser as a GIF. I think sometimes I see GIFs converting in the UI when they're fresh (not just the Star Trek GIFs). So maybe something is happening on the server. Weird, but solved, as you say.
@darth_hideout
Not that it helps, but I didn’t see it for seven hours after Nimmy got it.
I’m way behind on the timeline, as usual these days 😕
Interesting that the server takes a video, converts it to a gif but then arbitrarily trims it though. Something to remember if I ever start uploading videos myself
@Nmyownworld @5ciFiGirl @startrekgifs
@gareth @Nmyownworld @5ciFiGirl @startrekgifs
Some more info. Feel free to mute the convo. This is probably most interesting to @deusfigendi.
I see something in the API response for that post.
"attachment":[{
"type":"Document",
"mediaType":"video/mp4",
"url":"https://media.friendsofdesoto.social/media_attachments/files/117/572/323/604/857/573/original/9157956a4db92d72.mp4",
"name":"this is a clip from a star trek episode or movie",
"blurhash":"U00J8Vj]WAWAaej[fkj[V@WBogogofj[WBae",
"width":960,
"height":720,
"duration":"PT6.04S"
}]
The duration field is weird. It's the right length, but why PT? Why capital S? Why an S at all or a string & not a double?
Here's the API doc link: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/#get
I see nothing at all about a duration parameter. Is this maybe an error somewhere along the way? Is this forcing it to clip down to that duration?
@gareth @Nmyownworld @5ciFiGirl @startrekgifs @deusfigendi
Idk. I just uploaded a GIF on my phone. Same thing in the API response here. In this case, PT1.8S.
@startrekgifs Up the Long Ladder